High School For Change

Free Your Voice is a human rights group that has begun in a Curtis Bay school, Benjamin Franklin High School, to prevent an incinerator to be built near their high school. This facility would be the second largest incinerator in the United States, and could emit 240 pounds of mercury each year, causing many health and environmental issues. The high school students have come together to prevent this from happening in their community and bring the community to a better living standard. They have already created a video to raise awareness about their community and what it would be affecting, and have created pages and blogs to spread the word.

I would start this project by contacting the group leader at the school; begging to understand at a deeper level the situation going on and get a perspective from somebody within the community. To start thinking about how such a change in the community will affect the general population within Curtis Bay and the high school in particular.Then from there I would try to talk to the students active in the Free Your Voice group, to get their idea of what they are looking to accomplish, along with what changes have accompanied their homes and neighborhoods since Energy Answers Inc. has come in to build this incinerator.

The mission statements from the established businesses are slightly vague, bringing a general image of what they are doing. There really is nothing about how they plan to do it, or a specific ending result they are trying to accomplish. This seems to differ from our class' mission statements, it looks like we are trying to give the how we are trying to do it, along with a goal to accompany the how. Our statements are more specific and point the reader exactly where we are looking to end up. I understand our project is only a semester long, which is a fraction of time compared to the businesses because they are working for years to complete a goal. However, we can still bring that mystic to our mission so that the audience will have to do some deeper research to better understand exactly what our ending goal is and how we intend to go about reaching that result.